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Welcome to LDC’s own W DIRT Overview and timeline of LDC project ELCOME to the first edition of The DIRT. It’s a place where the Landholders Driving LDC to fund washdown Change project facility for community participants, observers Overview and tim and proponents can share T G information... share the “dirt” on the latest news and developments. The DIRT is where good ideas can take root and flourish. It’s a quarterly e-zine, or electronic magazine, but it can easily be printed out on a standard A4 printer and enjoyed like GRAZIE R SUPPO RT a traditional hardcopy n importa A and supp nt component of orted by Two graz magazine. extensio LDC is to foster ie r clu n peer grou ster grou staff, to Cluster he ps and othe groups of neighb ps are in the proc lp deliver skills that are self-di The format means resource r land managem ouring propertie ess of being fo and knowledge. rected rm s en Graziers across boundary t goals throug s consider land ed. sc h a coop every edition will 4799 3500 who are intere activity. erative ef ape remediatio sted in jo Stop shifting s n . fort, and ining a clu will shar ster grou e include lots of p can co ntact ou at t r office on “extras”... with LAND embedded videos so photographs will - Harry Potter-like - come to life as a new page is turned, audio effects - some of them to illustrate a point, some present purely to raise a smile. As the publication matures, and more editions P22 | ISSU E 1, April , 2018 are published, readers will be able to Get involved by sending easily refer to previous publications. stories - even snippets can Each edition will be packed with lots of be used - photographs, letters or notices o information, hopefully, a story or picture that upcoming events - or feedback (bouquets might bring a smile to your face, and, most AND brickbats are valid, and helpful, silenc importantly, lots of news about the latest is not). developments in the LDC project. THE Landscape remediation Gully erosion causes about 65 per cent of the fine sediment load that comes from the BBB. The Landscape remediation program aims to develop fast, effective and economical approaches to gully remediation. Demonstration sites will be established to showcase different methods of treating large-scale features, as well as smaller scale features. Influencing other land managers A key aim is to develop a successful model for effectively engaging with non-agricultural land managers that could be used in other catchments. Although 92 per cent of the land in the BBB is used for grazing, other areas include National Parks, State forests and coal mines. Four local councils operate in the catchment which also features major infrastructure such as power transmission lines, local and main roads, and rail lines. Exploring new incentives LDC will work closely with landholders to investigate incentives to reward good practice. Incentives could include market-based approaches such as grants, concessional loans, insurance mechanisms, stewardship payments, or rate rebates. Policy engagement This program aims to support BBB landholders to cut through regulatory red tape that may be preventing them from adopting practice changes. Aligned with the Exploring New Incentives program, it will work with landholders to identify the most relevant regulation policy The LDC team and the Whitsunday he LDC and has feasible committed to fund and a small and National overnments - State issues to pursue. vehicle community washdown facility Regional Council - (WRC) are Community discussing Relations Manager Sust Long Term Glencore Coal Assets Craig 2050 Australia, Reef in the It will also support graziers to comment the detail Above in Collinsville worth about $9000. of the (left) proposal works. in ke pollutants Strudwick with and NQ Dry Tropics CEO Scott Crawford LDC e Project Manager reduc Plan) to and on regulations during The commitment was a public result consultation of the Because there isn’t a community e sedime Andrew Yates 2050 (right) reduc to opportunities and Dry will coordinate By 2025, they aim LDC and Burdekin Tropics Regional washdown facility in the BBB region, 80 by reef the ing Below - Scoping workshop held in Collinsville as part of the LDC project design engagement between government and Pest Management Group’s Pest Advisory and in the interests of working with the and nitrogen reach for Minister bringing, graziers, scientists and technical Augu experts All ideas raised Queensland st, together. landholders policy and issues. whole phase, community to achieve long-term Forum held in on Collinsville in regulatory March where In and analysed were discussed, documented and Minister fo graziers raised concerns about biosecurity economic, social and environmental Heritage Protection, pro the ved appro Reef benefits, LDC project managers sees this risks associated with outside bodies Great Barrier ated Projec as a much-needed and long-overdue accessing grazing land. Dry Tropics Major Integr locally to Lan facility. They said laws for government It has been renamed It will allow council start planning agencies and utility companies accessing Change (LDC). aims to imp t properties needed to be strengthened to immediately for a second washdown projec year The three- ty are priori facility for larger vehicles. the (left), safeguard farmers’ interests. y within Greg Sibson, Valley Gary Re qualit Blue water . ments Shane Campbell, and Bogie (BBB) catch Join a C P14 | ISSUE 1, April, 2018 luster G roup ISSUE 1, April, 2018 | P Layton MacDonald ( Damien Tapiolas, Tapiolas Weed Control P42 | ISSUE 1, April, 2018 STATION P6 | ISSUE 1, April, P28 | ISSUE 1, April, 2018 P2 | ISSUE 1, April, 2018 2018 P12 | ISSUE